Piotr Bożek' s research is in theoretical nuclear physics,
particularly in the area of heavy ion collisions. The interpretation of
the experimental studies
conducted with colliding heavy ion beam at RHIC in BNL and the LHC at CERN
require quantitative modeling of the collision dynamics.
The hot and dense matter created in the interaction region behaves like
an almost perfect fluid. Hydrodynamics is applied to describe
the density and flow of matter. These studies aim at understanding of the mechanism of the apparent thermalization and the extracting the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.